On the 16th day of December... I HAVE the FIRST DAY !

[Alan Barnard]

Bravo, bravo.

Pray tell, why are the 12 days being extended this year? Holiday special? Oh, I know: They're in a bracket that is growing!

Alan Barnard
Salem, MO

----- Original message ----------------------------------------
From: "Richard Brekne" <ricb at pianostemmer.no>
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Received: 12/15/2007 11:43:49 AM
Subject: On the 16th day of December... I HAVE the FIRST DAY !


>Going back to the idea someone put up earlier of the customer wanting 
>this done free.... it dawned on me... the Poifect first line ! 

>    "From a Parson who wants it fixed free !"

>So... for day 16 then things have shaped up thusly :

>On the 16th day of December a piano came to me

>   With sixteen pins a-pommelled
>   Fifteen butts a-bounding
>   Fourteen wobbly whippens
>   Thirteen coins a-clinking,
>   Twelve tubby bass strings,
>   Eleven  jacks a-jumping,
>   Ten grungy grommets,
>   Nine brittle bridles,
>   Eight damaged dampers,
>   Seven fractured flanges,
>   Six errant elbows,
>   Five broken strings !
>   Four coats of paint,
>   Three warped posts,
>   Two pedals bent,
>   From a Parson who wants it fixed free !



>Cheers
>RicB


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